Re: git-scm.com website

Scott Chacon [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

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Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to
Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me.

I would love to have Emacs on that page, actually. If you guys want me
to add that, I'm happy to. I didn't know they moved over, I thought
they were still a bzr shop.

I don't know who "you guys" is, but it would be my guess that
Stallman/FSF would not be enthused to see the Emacs logo added to that
particular list.

Emacs used Bzr particularly to promote an alternative to Git more open
to the free software philosophy promoted by the FSF.  Once Bzr
development became non-responsive and Canonical turned it more into a
Canonical-owned rather than a community project, it became sort of
pointless to stick with a technically less popular choice.

So Emacs fairly recently switched to Git.

So it's sort of a screaming and kicking endorsement.  Some people would
claim that those are the best, but it does not really fit well with the
spirit of this front page.

quoted

It might make sense to reduce this list just to "Projects" since
those are actually more tangible and verifiable.  Or scrap it
altogether.

Sorry, I disagree with this. I think it's helpful for people to see
some important corporations that are using it,

Where is the point if they don't see how or in what scale?

since many people coming to the page are doing research to figure out
if they want to switch to it in their companies. It also demonstrates
that these large companies are participating in the open source
community

Uh no, it doesn't.  "Uses $x" does not constitute participation.

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David Kastrup

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:49 AM, David Kastrup [off-list ref] wrote:

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since many people coming to the page are doing research to figure out
if they want to switch to it in their companies. It also demonstrates
that these large companies are participating in the open source
community

Uh no, it doesn't.  "Uses $x" does not constitute participation.

I am unsure what the intend of the site is or should be?

Do we want to convince other people to use it as in "everybody
else uses it, so should you" or rather point out you can participate
in the (development-) community as in "we got contributions from
these companies and projects, you could also steer git in a direction
you want by participating?"